Mental Health Certification Review Exam
Questions & Answers.
what is the alternate name for a MhTC - Correct Answer psychiatric aide
what does MhTC participate in - Correct Answer planning and implementing of individual
patient treatment plans
what are some of the career responsibilities - Correct Answer care for mentally impaired
or emotionally disturbed people, hygiene of patients, patients pulse, temperature, an
respiration, issue medications from dispensary and maintain records, lead prescribed
individual or group therapy sessions as part of therapeutic procedures, assist patients
with daily living activities
asylum - Correct Answer an institution offering shelter and support to people who are
mentally ill.
case management - Correct Answer coordination of a variety of community services,
monitoring the services, and advocating for individuals suffering from ongoing mental
health issues
deinstitutionalization - Correct Answer The process of transferring patients with mental
disorders or developmental disabilities from long-term institutions, which isolate the
patient, to more integrated community-based mental health services
mental disorder - Correct Answer clinically significant behavior or psychological syndrome
or pattern that occurs in an individual and is associated with present distress, disability or
with significantly increases risk of suffering, death, pain, disability or an important loss of
freedom
DSM-IV codes - Correct Answer used by professionals to describe features of mental
disorders and indicate how disorder can be distinguished from other, similar problems
Mental health in the 1790's - Correct Answer period of enlightenment concerning persons
with mental illness
,who formulated the concept of asylum as a safe refuge - Correct Answer Phillippe Pinel
and William Turkes
what percentage of countries have no clear federal policy that addresses mental health
issues - Correct Answer 50%
Dorothea Dix - Correct Answer began a crusade to reform the treatment of mental illness
after visiting Tuke's institution in England. She advocated adequate shelter, nutritious
food and warm clothing
Benjamin Rush - Correct Answer took the philsophy of Pinel and Tuke and realized that
more progressive treatments were needed
Eugene Bleuler, Sigmund Freud, Emil Kraepelin - Correct Answer study of psychiatry, the
diagnosis and treatment of mental illness started
Adolf Meyer - Correct Answer promoted establishment of psychiatric research center
Patients Bill of Rights - Correct Answer protect mentally ill
akathisia - Correct Answer movement disorder characterized by a feeling of inner
restlessness and inability to stay still.
anticholinergic side effects - Correct Answer dry mouth and related dental problems,
blurred vision, tendency toward overheating (hyperpyrexia), and in some cases,
dementia-like symptoms.
anticholinergic - Correct Answer Opposing the actions of the neurotransmitter
acetylcholine
black box warning - Correct Answer strictest warning put in the labeling of prescription
drugs or drug products by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when there is
reasonable evidence of an association of a serious hazard with the drug.
dopamine - Correct Answer a compound present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a
precursor of other substances including epinephrine.
, extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) - Correct Answer caused by anti psychotic medications,
include acute dyskinesias and dystonic reactions, tardive dyskinesia, Parkinsonism,
akinesia, akathisia, and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.mood
MRI - Correct Answer magnetic resonance imaging, produced detailed images of organs,
noninvasive
efficacy - Correct Answer the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
CT - Correct Answer computed tomography, detailed images of internal organs, bones,
soft tissues, blood vessels
dystonia - Correct Answer abnormal muscle tone, muscular spasm, usually due to
neurological disease
limbic system - Correct Answer a complex system of nerves and networks in the brain,
involving several areas near the edge of the cortex concerned with instinct and mood. It
controls the basic emotions (fear, pleasure, anger) and drives (hunger, sex, dominance,
care of offspring).
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome - Correct Answer is a life-threatening idiosyncratic
reaction to antipsychotic drugs characterized by fever, altered mental status, muscle
rigidity, and autonomic dysfunction.
dependency - Correct Answer reliance on something for well being, or perceived well
being
characteristics of a chemically dependent person - Correct Answer may not be able to
make it through a specific period of time without the satisfaction of achieving a certain
euphoria caused by the drug, interfere with daily life, job, social life, finances and personal
relationships
affect - Correct Answer emotions
what can long term alcohol use cause - Correct Answer dementia and severe liver
damage
